John embarked from Boston, a marked man whose ownings were confiscated, with his wife, eleven children and his goods on his own schooner The Nepture, he sailed to Quebec where he landed 23 Aug 1775. He was a partiicpant in holding Quebec City against Montgomery, Arnold and the American forces in late 1775.

When he died in 1808, he was (or possibly had been?) “one of His Majesty's Justices of the Peace of the City of Quebec and Inspector of Police for said City.”